Interactful vs UIKit Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Interactful
This app offers an interactive learning experience for SwiftUI, providing code snippets and examples for various components and foundational elements. It also grants quick access to official Apple developer and design documentation.
- Interactive SwiftUI examples
- Code snippets for components
- Foundational element explanations
- Access to Apple documentation
- macOS version available
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An interactive guide for SwiftUI to help designers and developers build better apps. – Code snippets and interactive examples for components like Sliders, Toggles, Lists, and Grids – Foundational elements like Colors, Fonts, Haptics, Gestures, Animation, SF Symbols, and Accessibility – Quick access to Apple's official developer and design documentation – Also available on macOS
UIKit Lab
An interactive guide for designers to explore and customize UI components. Visualize and understand interface essentials through hands-on demos. Get a feel for how components look and behave with real-time adjustments.
- Interactive UI component demos
- Browse organized interface essentials
- Customize UI components
- Real-time visual feedback
- Designed for designers
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UIKit Lab is an interactive guide to UIKit for designers. Browse interface essentials that are thoughtfully organized. Play with interactive demos of UI components. Customize UI components to quickly get a sense of their new look and feel right from UIKit Lab.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: UIKit Lab at none against Interactful's 3. UIKit Lab also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Interactful's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (98% vs 71%). On price, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Interactful sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. UIKit Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.
Interactful holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interactful has 394 ratings behind it against 43, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 98% of Interactful's written reviews are positive against 71% of UIKit Lab's.
Interactful ships an update every 2 months, UIKit Lab every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Interactful | UIKit Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (394 ratings) — better | 4.5 (43 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 98.4% of reviews — better | 70.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 394 — better | 43 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 351 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harley Thomas | Wenchang Yang |
Customer experience
Interactful
UIKit Lab
Bugs and requests
Interactful
Reported bugs
2 issues- Navigation issues in certain examples
- Inconsistent behavior with some UI elements
Requested features
5 requests- Support for newer iOS versions and components
- Dynamic Type size adjustments
- Code generation for more complex examples
- Audio/sound effects support
- Ability to save/export custom configurations
UIKit Lab
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Interactful
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99
UIKit Lab
No in-app purchases
